Irrigation ponds
Kagawa's reservoirs, built to cope with a dry climate, show up as distinct solid shapes among the fields. They give the map a rhythm that belongs to this corner of Shikoku.
Tabula geographica minimalis · Japan
34.2706° N / 134.1307° E
A rural stretch of the Sanuki Plain where a single rail line crosses rice paddies, farm lanes and scattered irrigation ponds





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Hiragi sits on the Sanuki Plain in Kagawa, the smallest of Japan's prefectures, a short way inland from Takamatsu. From above it has a quiet pattern: long farm roads, clusters of houses along older lanes, and the thin line of a local railway running across open ground. Nothing here follows a grand plan. The streets trace field boundaries that were drawn long before cars arrived.
The feature that defines this part of Kagawa on any map is water. The rainfall is low and the rivers are short, so over the centuries farmers built thousands of irrigation ponds, and they appear as rounded or angular shapes between the paddies. On a Hiragi map poster these ponds read almost like punctuation: small solid forms that break up the fine mesh of lanes and field edges around them.
Kagawa is known across Japan for sanuki udon, and the modest towns of the plain belong to that everyday landscape of noodle shops, shrines and farmhouses. At a wider zoom the low hills that rise out of the plain come into the frame. A street map has no contour lines, so their outlines show up in the places where the roads stop or bend around them.
Kagawa's reservoirs, built to cope with a dry climate, show up as distinct solid shapes among the fields. They give the map a rhythm that belongs to this corner of Shikoku.
A single railway track crosses the plain. Its steady line cuts through the curving farm roads and gives the composition a clear axis for reading the rest of the map.
Narrow roads follow the boundaries of rice paddies and form a fine, irregular mesh that looks almost woven when printed in black on white at the larger sizes.
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Cur Hiragi
A map of Hiragi usually belongs to someone with a personal link to it: a family home, a stay in rural Shikoku, a place remembered from a train window. Its quiet pattern of ponds and lanes suits a calm room and holds up well in larger formats.
You can change the title, subtitle and coordinates line to add a family name or a year, and choose Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand. The $9 digital download includes six sizes, each as a 300 DPI PNG and a print-ready PDF. You can also order a matte print with an optional wooden frame.
Eme tabulam Hiragi| Magnitudo impressionis | Resolutio | Fasciculi |
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| 30 × 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7″) | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3, 11.7 × 16.5″) | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2, 16.5 × 23.4″) | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24″) | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6″) | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36″) | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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